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A secretly-taped video showing what appears to be a hotel cleaner rifling through a guest’s belonging is making Internet rounds.

YouTube user Vince Stravix uploaded a video he claims was taken on Nov. 5 at a “brand-named” American hotel. He set up the hidden camera attached to his computer to secretly record what happened in his hotel room while he stepped out.

In the video, a woman is seen entering a hotel room with cleaning cart in tow and begins collecting towels and tidying up the bathroom. But soon the cleaner can be seen looking through the guest’s suitcase, playing with a tablet device and even trying to access the very laptop used to film the room.

The woman does not appear to take any belongings. 

Since Vince Stravix uploaded the videoon YouTue, it's been viewed over 1.2 million times and garnered hundreds of comments. Many angry posts point the finger at the hotel for lack of security, while others say they see a “curious” woman but overall aren’t that bothered.

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Firefighters on Wednesday afternoon rescued two window washers who became suspended 69 stories above the street while working at the newly completed 1 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.

The workers, who were harnessed to the scaffolding of the window-washing equipment, were uninjured, according to the authorities.

Shortly before 2 p.m., firefighters could be seen cutting a hole through a window near the platform and then assembling inside, where they pulled the workers to safety.

More at source: NY Times

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New York is a monumental, awe-inspiring city. Much of its gritty cinematographic character comes from her heavy makeup, layers upon layers of pollution deposited for decades in every nook and crack. Trevor Little's photo of two guys powerwashing a building clearly shows this beautiful old whore's true skin.

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Peter Normand’s question for Curious City begins with an unusual email he received on July 13. The email was from his alderman, the 49th Ward’s Joe Moore.

The message referenced William Lewis, a 28-year-old photographer who had just moved to Chicago. Just one day earlier, Lewis had been killed by stray gang gunfire on the 1300 block of W. Devon Ave.

“I happened to be on Devon only a block from the shooting and heard the gunfire,” read Ald. Moore’s email to constituents. “I looked up to see the assailant, who appeared to be a teenager, continue to fire his weapon at a group of fleeing youths. It is something I will never forget.”

What Moore wrote next saddened our question-asker and piqued a morbid curiosity:

“Later that evening on our way to a neighborhood block party, my wife and I drove past the scene of the shooting and noticed that bloodstains remained on the sidewalk. We went to a nearby store to purchase some water, bleach and a brush to clean the sidewalk. By the time we returned, Milton, a resident of the building adjacent to the sidewalk, had already undertaken the grim task. We helped him finish the job.”

Peter Normand, a 36-year-old architect and resident of the 1900 block of W. Morse, was moved enough to ask Curious City:

Who cleans up the blood on sidewalks and playgrounds after shootings?

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An elementary school in suburban Chicago closed for cleaning Thursday after nearly a third of the students were out sick the day before.

Students at Robinson Elementary in Lyons got sick from what health officials say is most likely the Norovirus. With so many kids out, Lyons Superintendent Mary Jo Vladika said she'd rather be safe than sorry.

Health is the number one priority for her students. That's why she had the school closed, cleaned and sanitized for a fresh start Friday.

“I thought I was going to miss something really important,” student Lebonnie Garcia said.

Elvia Garcia's daughter is a third grader at Robinson Elemnetary and she was just one of the 80 students out sick Wednesday.

“It was Tuesday night around midnight she started throwing up. She threw up a couple of times," Garcia said.

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To improve chemical safety and provide more streamlined access to information on chemicals, EPA has built and is populating a new database. This new database, named ChemView, greatly improves access to health and safety data on chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It contains information EPA receives and develops about chemicals including those on EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredient List.

ChemView is part of EPA's commitment to strengthen its chemicals management programs by improving access to and the usefulness of chemical information. The goal is for people to easily get information they need to make safe chemical choices. It can help businesses, individuals and others make more informed decisions about the chemicals they use.

While the current version of ChemView contains a substantial amount of information, when fully populated, ChemView will contain data for thousands of chemicals regulated under TSCA. In the months ahead, EPA will be continually adding chemicals, data, assessments, functionality, and links to source documents.

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Provided by Britt Faulstick, Drexel University

Some of the same chemical reactions that occur in the atmosphere as a result of smog and ozone are actually taking place in your house while you are cleaning. A researcher in Drexel’s College of Engineering is taking a closer look at these reactions, which involve an organic compound – called limomene – that provides the pleasant smell of cleaning products and air fresheners. His research will help to determine what byproducts these sweet-smelling compounds are adding to the air while we are using them to remove germs and odors.

Secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) are microscopic particles created when ozone reacts with gases such as limonene – the chemical name for the smell of oranges – or its cousin α-pinene, which is part of the smell of pine trees. Outdoors, this reaction happens all the time. It drives the formation of much of the atmospheric organic aerosol present in our environment. And in, population-dense urban areas – where enough suspended particles can be amassed – it contributes to the formation of the visible haze called smog. 

While a large amount of aerosols that exist in the Earth’s atmosphere are naturally occurring – created by processes such as mechanical suspension by wind or sea spray – much is produced as a result of industrialization. And while researchers are still striving to fully understand the health and environmental impact of increased levels of secondary organic aerosols in the atmosphere, studies have linked exposure to outdoor aerosols generally to morbidity and mortality outcomes.

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Long Island vitamin maker NBTY will eliminate 73 jobs in building cleaning and maintenance early next year, outsourcing the work.

Spokeswoman Andrea Staub of Ronkonkoma-based NBTY said the changes will be effective Jan. 19 when the new company, ABM Janitorial Services, takes over at all 12 of NBTY's buildings on Long Island.

More at source: Newsday

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